China is the hometown of wine, the birthplace of wine culture, and one of the earliest countries in the world to make wine.
According to the "Shennong Materia Medica", wine should originate from the ancient Shennong era. In Chen Qirong's "Eight Kinds of Shiben", it is said: "Yi Di began to work, wine mash, change the five tastes, Shaokang made mochi wine." "Yi Di and Shao Kang are both Xia Dynasty people. It can be seen that during the Xia Dynasty, China was able to make wine.
However, according to historical records, the earliest wine produced by Yidi and Shaokang was not cereal wine, but should be fruit wine made of fruit as a winemaking raw material. According to the "Compendium of Materia Medica", "Shochu is not an ancient method, but since its inception in the Yuan Dynasty, its method is made of strong wine and bad into the koshiki, steaming on the gas, and using the vessel to carry the drip dew." From this, it can be concluded that China has only begun to brew "shochu" since the Yuan Dynasty.
The so-called "shochu", in fact, is what we call liquor today, which is a distilled liquor made of grain and grain as the main raw material, with large koji, koji or bran koji and mother wine as saccharification fermentation agents, and is made by steaming, saccharification, fermentation and distillation. Since the color of "shochu" is mostly colorless and looks relatively clear, the name of "shochu" was changed to "liquor".
In our country, because "wine" is a culture, China attaches great importance to "wine". In order to carry forward the "wine" culture, China has carried out five Chinese liquor international famous wine selection activities between 1952 and 1989. In these five famous wine selection activities, Moutai wine was listed five times; Fenjiu was on the list five times; Xifeng wine was listed four times; Wuliangye was on the list four times; Gujing tribute wine was listed four times; Dongjiu was listed four times; Luzhou Laojiao special song was listed four times; Quanxing Daqu wine was listed three times; Jiannanchun was on the list three times; Luzhou Laojiao special song was on the list three times; Yanghe Daqu was on the list three times; Shuanggou Daqu was on the list twice; Langjiu was listed twice; special Yellow Crane Tower wine was listed twice; Luzhou Daqu wine was listed once; Wuling wine was on the list once; Baofeng wine was on the list once Songhe grain liquid was on the list once; Tuopai qujiu was on the list once.
According to the results of the selection of China Baijiu International Famous Wine held in Hefei in 1989, Moutai Wine, FenJiu, Wuliangye, Yanghe Daqu, Jian Nanchun, Gujing Tribute Wine, DongJiu, Xifeng Wine, Luzhou Laojiao Special Qu, Quanxing Daqu Wine, Shuanggou Daqu Wine, Special Yellow Crane Tower Wine, LangJiu, Wuling Liquor, Baofeng Liquor, Songhe Grain Liquid and Tuopai Qu Liquor are the seventeen famous wines in China.
Among these seventeen famous wines, many people have heard of the fifteen kinds of liquors, such as Moutai Wine, FenJiu, Wuliangye, Yanghe Daqu, Jian Nanchun, Gujing Tribute Wine, DongJiu, Xifeng Wine, Luzhou Laojiao Special Qu, Quanxing Daqu Wine, Shuanggou Daqu, LangJiu, Baofeng Liquor, Songhe Liangye, and Tuopai QuJiu. However, few people have heard of the special Yellow Crane Tower wine and Wuling wine.
So, since few people have heard of these two kinds of liquor, how can these two liquors become one of the seventeen famous liquors?
In fact, a total of 362 kinds of liquors participated in the selection activities of the 17 famous wines, and the wine evaluation adopted the method of 100 points (color and luster, 25 points of aroma, 50 points of taste, and 15 points of style) for selection, and all the wine samples were password numbered before the selection, and the preliminary evaluation, re-evaluation and final evaluation were carried out by the method of elimination system. The experts who presided over the wine appraisal work were: Shen Yifang, Yu Qiao, Gao Yueming, Cao Shuxian, Zeng Zuxun, and Wang Yugui. Another 44 judges participated in the judging. All selection processes are open and fair, and there is no phenomenon of personal fraud. The reason why the special Yellow Crane Tower wine and Wuling wine that we have rarely heard of can become one of the seventeen famous wines shows that the quality of their wines is still very good. It's just that because these two wines haven't done much marketing campaign, we've rarely heard of them.